Welcome

I am a composer whose music has been described as “masterfully orchestrated” and exhibiting “sonic beauty” (San Diego Union-Tribune). I create from a deep-rooted lyrical impulse, combined with an interest in the ways we perceive sound and in musical repertoires both old and new. With each project, I seek to intertwine these diverse influences in novel ways, curating sonic worlds that feel simultaneously fresh and familiar. I have worked in a variety of contexts, from the acoustic to the electronic, from concert music to sound installations and interdisciplinary collaborations.

My music has been commissioned by and received performances at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Breckenridge Music Festival, Royaumont Voix Nouvelles Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, ISCM World New Music Days, Composers Conference, and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, among others. My recent collaborators include the New Fromm Players, the Flux Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Duo Axis, HOCKET, and the La Jolla Symphony. My music theory scholarship has been published in Music Theory Online.

I am a graduate of the University of California San Diego (Ph.D.), the Eastman School of Music (M.A.), and the University of Chicago (B.A.), and I was also a US-UK Fulbright Scholar at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London.

I am currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory/Composition at Illinois State University, where I also co-direct the RED NOTE New Music Festival.

For a press bio or questions about my music, please contact me.

Recent highlights:

Forgotten Song II premiered by members of Ensemble Dal Niente at the RED NOTE New Music Festival, March 2024
Appointed Assistant Professor at Illinois State University, March 2024
An Elemental Music commissioned and premiered by the La Jolla Symphony, cond. Michael Gerdes, March 2023 (review)
Forgotten Song, commissioned by the Breckenridge Music Festival, premiered in Breckenridge, CO, August 2022
Article on overtone structures and politics in contemporary music published in Music Theory Online, Volume 28, no. 2, June 2022 (link)
Ph.D. dissertation events at UC San Diego, May 2022: premiere of Chamber Concerto (UC San Diego musicians, cond. Steven Schick), performances of Adrift (Duo Axis) and Three Reflections (Shaoai Ashley Zhang), and first in-person presentation of the sound installation Landscape with Changes (with lighting design by Jessica C. Flores)

Photo credit: Jessica C. Flores